Non-fiction
Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond *	Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos *	Last Dance by John Feinstein	The Devil on Trial: Witches, Anarchists, Atheists, Communists and Terrorists in America's Courtrooms by Phillip Marguiles and Maxine Rosaler

Mad Cow/Gnome Fiction	Fantasy		Mystery
Going Bovine by Libba Bray*	Graceling by Krsitin Cashore *	Epic by Conor Kostick	The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin *

Sci-Fi		Horror:
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson *	Gone by Michael Grant	What Are You Afraid Of? Stories about Phobias edited by Donald R. Gallo	Soulless by Christopher Golden

Funny Realistic Fiction
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan *	Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery by Susan Juby	Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway	Flush by Carl Hiaasen *

Serious Realistic Fiction
Stoner and Spaz by Ron Koertege *	Nothing to Lose by Alex Flinn	Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen	If I Stay by Gayle Forman *
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers	Heavy Metal and You by Christopher Krovatin	Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin *	Marcelo in the Real World Francisco X. Stork *
Hero-Type by Barry Lyga *	The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein *	Guardian by Julius Lester

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